Obituary of W. B. Howell, Jefferson Co, Ar

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Howell, W. B. - Washington Post, July 13, 1905 - Sickness Caused Suicide - Arkansas
Planter Left Sister in Staunton, Va. - New York, July 12 - Desperate because
treatment for which he came to this city had failed to help his rapidly failing
eyesight, W. B. Howell, a well to do cotton planter of Pine Bluff, Ark., today
committed suicide in the Hotel Navarre here by shooting. Howell left three
telegrams explaining his act. These messages, all identical, read: “Treatment
unsuccessful. This is the cause of it all. ” One of these to his mother at Pine
Bluff; another to his sister, Mrs. M. D. Russell at Staunton, Va., and the third to
a nephew, John H. Noble, of Anniston, Alabama. 

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